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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArcadeDB vs. ClickHouse vs. H2 vs. KeyDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#374	Overall
	#52	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#56	Key-value stores
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#232	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.arcadedb.com

clickhouse.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Arcade Data

Clickhouse Inc.

Thomas Mueller

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2021

2016

2005

2019

Current release

September 2021

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language, no joins

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control and ACL

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